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History of  Guilin

A travel to China is incomplete without a visit to Guilin which is a must. The city is famed for its stunning landscape and the city’s location has a kind of magic that is all its own. A travel information Guilin lets an insight about the city which feature strangely shaped hills, or karsts, with the lush vegetation ranging from bamboo to conifers together with wonderful caves, all make Guilin an attraction for tourists. The city is located in the northeast of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The cities natural beauty and historic treasures make Guilin to be the pearl of China’s flourishing tourist industry. According to     travel information Guilin the city is spread over an area of about 27,800 square kilometers, and the city is rather compact when compared with other leading cities in the country. Guilin lies in the middle of some spectacular beautiful countryside and one will find green mountains, crystal clear waters, unique caves and beautiful stones. Major attractions include Elephant Trunk Hill, Li River, Reed Flute Cave and Seven-Star Park that boasts a Stone Museum where amazing geological finds are displayed. A visit to each of these places will leave one with lasting memories.

Guilin china weather has a subtropical monsoon climate with an annual temperature of 19C, and 310 frost-free days. Guilin china weather informs that the annual rainfall averages 1,926 millimeters. Guilin nightlife is striking as its natural beauty. The city hosts from modern nightclubs, romantic night cruise to folk customs center on the Li River, providing travelers to enjoy or relax themselves thoroughly. Guilin nightlife makes Guilin a more unique natural experience. In the city for hundreds of years poets and artists have been fascinated by the sheer splendor of the unique scenery, around which many fairy-tales and legends have been woven.

Tourist Places in Guilin

Guilin is a world famous tourist city for its picturesque scenery, as well as a well-known cultural and historic city. Located in the subtropical zone, Guilin boasts a pleasant climate for sightseeing throughout the four seasons. Today's Guilin ranks the second respectively on the list of China's ten best scenic spots and that of China' top forty tourist spots. A number of budget hotels in Guilin makes your stay comfortable, and gives you an opportunity to visit the nearby tourist spots in Guilin.

LI RIVER CRUISE
The Li River cruise from Guilin to Yangshuo is the centerpiece of any trip to northeastern Guangxi Province. The trip starts from the dock south of Liberation Bridge in Guilin downtown area. Otherwise some agencies will transport tourist to by a one-hour bus ride to catch the cruise. The river trip is over eighty kilometers long and is estimated to take seven to eight hours.

SEVEN STAR PARK
Seven Star Park is a delightful park that has been landscaped to encompass hills and natural waterways is a great favorite with the local people and tourists alike. The park takes its name from the fact that the four peaks on Putuo Hill and the three peaks on Crescent Hill that form the main part of the park replicate the pattern of the seven stars in the Ursa Major constellation (Great bear or Big Dipper).

SOLITARY BEAUTY PEAK (DUXIU FENG)
Solitary Beauty Peak (Duxiu Feng) is one of Guilin's most prominent karst peaks and is located in the city center. It is reputed as "Sky-Supporting Pillar in the South." If you are willing to make the 306 step trek to the peak, you will be rewarded with fantastic views of Guilin, the Lijiang River, and the surrounding peaks.

WAVE SUBDUING HILL (FUBOSHAN)
Wave Subduing Hill (Fuboshan) has one of the most unique and interesting shapes of all the hills in Guilin and contains many interesting sights. The sights on the hill include a temple to the Wave Subduing General (Fubo Jiangjun), after whom the hill is named. Elsewhere on the hill, Returned Pearl Cave and Thousand Buddhas Cave are also great places to see some Tang and Song Buddhist statues.

How To Reach Guilin

By Air :
Guilin Liangjiang International Airport (KWL) is 26 km (16.2 miles) from the city center. Over 50 airlines connect Guilin with domestic cities as well as foreign counties such as Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, etc. In particular, airlines schedule several flights daily to and from major cities like Beijing, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Guiyang, Haikou, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Kunming, Macau, Nanjing, Nanning, Qingdao, Sanya, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Taiyuan, Wuhan, Xian, Zhengzhou, Dalian, Shantou, Chengdu, Lanzhou, Tianjin, Jinan, Wenzhou, Changsha, Fuzhou, and Zhuhai.

The airport shuttle bus runs between the airport and the Aviation Building located at No.18 Shanghai Road at a cost of CNY 20. The airport shuttle bus leaves for the center following flight arrivals. It leaves for the airport every 30 minutes from 6:30 to 20:00. It costs about CNY 80 for taxi.

Ticket Office: Airport Terminal of Guilin Liangjiang International Airport

By Rail :
Guilin Railway Station (South Station) is to the south of the city center but is more conveniently situated than the North Station. The two stations have some thirty trains each arriving and leaving daily, as the city is the hub of the Nanling Mountain and central China. The North Station is situated in the suburbs of the city and has less convenient links with the center. Guilin's major trunk routes link it with Anhui, Beijing, Chongqing, Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, and Shanghai, Sichuan and Zhejiang. International trains from Beijing to Hanoi, Vietnam, pass Guilin twice a week, so do the trains from Hanoi to Beijing.

Tips: It is not easy to buy sleeper tickets at the Guilin sales office, as the city is a mid-route stop rather than a terminus. Therefore it is best to make reservations 5 days in advance or even 10 days earlier during the golden weeks. The booking service fee is between CNY 20 to 50 per ticket.

By Road :
Coaches link Guilin to surrounding cities like Yangshuo, Quanzhou, Lipu, Longsheng, etc. There is an express high way from Guilin to Liuzhou. Long-distance sleeper coaches run between provincial cities like Beihai, Nanning, Wuzhou, Yulin, etc, and cities in the Pearl River Delta such as Dongguan, Guangzhou, Jiangmen, Panyu, Shunde, Zhongshan and Zhuhai, Puning, Shantou and Zhanjiang in Guangdong Province, Changsha in Hunan Province, Wuhan in Hubei Province, Fuzhou in Fujian Province and Sanya in Hainan Province and more.

There are three bus stations: the Chief Bus Station, Chengnan Bus Station and Beimen Bus Station. The Chief Bus Station is at No.427 Zhongshan Nan Road, 10 minutes' walk from the railway station in the north. You can take No.1, 2, 3, 10, 11 Buses. Most buses set off from this station to surrounding cities in Guangxi, Guangdong and Hunan provinces.

By Water :
Water conveyances from Guilin mainly along Xiangjiang River and Li River lead to the ports of Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macau.

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